I had a pretty sizable reply typed out to Brannigans Law, but after I read the portion of his post about Hyper-V ("I googled hyper V and after reading about it on google and then waking myself up I decided that yes, I still don't care what it is and neither does anyone else"), I deleted the whole thing, finally concluding that it would be more fruitful to smash my head into a brick wall so I could see what my own brain looks like than talk to someone this wilfully ignorant on a subject.
There really is no amount of information that would change your mind because you simply don't care to consider things outside your own little bubble. Statements like "I also have 1 PC and an android tablet so this feature is also useless for the vast majority of people" show the extent of the problem, you think that if a feature doesn't matter to you, it can't possibly matter to anyone else.
I'm not even sure why you're in this thread except to fling poo on the subject matter. Do you care to learn anything?
Anything at all?
I mean, it's quite obvious from your post that you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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Originally Posted by photon
I think having AV on by default is HUGE. Not for sophisticated users, but for the general public, that is great.
As for the other security updates, given that I have lots of information from many different clients on my computer and network, this is quite important to me and is a compelling reason to upgrade from 7 to 8.
This by itself convinced me that I'll upgrade to Windows 8 soon, I use a 3rd party app to do that kind of thing now and it's not that great.
From a work point of view this is awesome, another compelling reason to upgrade.
Given even just those things, Windows 8 has moved from "When I have to" to "When I can" priority for my main computer.
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Definitely agreed. And while third-party antivirus is all well and good, with such a wide variety of options to choose from with each of them having their own failings, I definitely appreciate that - out of the box - Windows 8 is significantly improved in the security department over its predecessor. You just can't count on end users having a good antivirus or even installing one at all, unfortunately.
The multi-monitor stuff is huge for me. I have dual monitors at home and at the office. I've never been a fan of the third-party bolt-on tools for this (I tried MultiMon). And file history, if you're that "computer friend" that everyone knows at least one of, how many phone calls/texts have you gotten where you hear "I accidentally saved over a copy of a file I didn't want to, how do I get the old one back"? When I worked for smaller firms where you'd have less mature infrastructure and things were very much break-fix, done on the cheap, and "Backups? LOL", enabling Shadow Copies for Previous Versions functionality was the first thing I did usually, and it saved me plenty of times.